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This tutorial shows how to use the Ideogram Character model within the Flora node-based AI canvas tool to create multiple images of the same character in different settings or styles.

Zainab Fawzul takes a critical look at Articulate Rise. She argues that even though Articulate has been doing some more substantive updates to Rise recently, it's still lacking some highly useful requested features. Multiple external additions have come out to help fill the gaps in Rise's capabilities.

Harriet Moser generates a lot of fantastic AI images; she's one of the people I follow on LinkedIn for inspiration with her delightful visuals. This blog post on her site is much more serious though. Just because you can put celebrities and brands in your AI images and videos doesn't mean you should. Get an overview of the copyright risks for content creators in this post.

Hank Green explains why it's hard to figure out how much water AI actually uses and why different sources report wildly different results. It depends on how you measure the use (including training). The quick answer is that you should be skeptical of any single number for AI water use that doesn't include the explanation of how they got to that number.

Eleven Labs documentation on how to control pauses, pronunciation, and emotions in their voices

Ethan Mollick describes one of the challenges of working with AI: its capabilities are very jagged. AI can be really good at some tasks but terrible at others, and it's not always easy to predict where it's most useful. When weaknesses that create bottlenecks are identified, AI companies focus development in those areas, Just because something is a weakness now doesn't necessarily mean AI will never be able to do that task.